A Quote by Laurence J. Peter

In most hierarchies, supercompetence is more objectionable than incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

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Laurence J. Peter
Canadian - Writer
September 16, 1919 - January 12, 1990

The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

It isn't generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn't generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it's in the nature of hierarchy.

Jordan Peterson

Authoritarianism and secrecy breed incompetence; the two feed on each other. It's a vicious cycle. Governments with authoritarian tendencies point to what is in fact their own incompetence as the rationale for giving them yet more power.

Josh Marshall

If we can no longer believe in heavenly hierarchies, extraterrestrial hierarchies will suffice.

Brad Steiger

Incompetence is a better explanation than conspiracy in most human activity.

Peter Bergen

DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another.

Ambrose Bierce

It happens; incompetence is rewarded more often than not.

Jeff Lindsay

Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

me, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive. Each is all three.

Ambrose Bierce

Having first rate people on the team is more important than designing hierarchies and clarifying who reports to whom.

Warren Buffett

There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.

Bob Herbert

Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult. Many people find smoking objectionable. I myself find many - even more - things objectionable. I do not like aftershave lotion, adults who roller-skate, children who speak French, or anyone who is unduly tan. I do not, however, go around enacting legislation and putting up signs.

Fran Lebowitz

Whenever you're faced with an explanation of what's going on in Washington, the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence.

Charles Krauthammer

What the Japanese are, are the Americans of the 21st century. Essentially what is objectionable about them is what was objectionable about Americans when we had the ball. However, they are committed in a way that American technology is not.

Howard Rheingold

We cannot reward incompetence and deceit. We need to demand more than what Hillary Clinton offers for America.

Chris Christie

I think that Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself is in many ways extremely objectionable.

John Maynard Keynes

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